PyCon Africa calls for proposals
Welcome to May, hacks and hackers! PyCon Africa is a new conference happening this August in Ghana, and they’re currently looking for workshop and presentation submissions that cover topics like data, web/dev ops and general Python.
Submit your proposals here by June 1, and apply for financial assistant to attend the conference here by June 10.
Happening this week:
- New Orleans is getting public records
- Montreal is talking tech at the pub
- North East England is learning how YouTube broke everything
Worth a read:
- Here’s a collection of #rstats tweets about different ways to collect and analyze data from the Mueller Report with R (Josephine Lukito)
- The Upshot, NYT’s data visualization section, is five years old, so its staff wrote a blogpost looking back at some of their favorite, weirdest and most successful pieces (NYT)
- Have you ever used Python’s map or lambda functions? If not, check out this post that showcases five of Python’s advanced features and how to use them (Towards Data Science)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 13-17 | San Francisco | US | The Web Conference |
| May | 16-19 | Mechelen | Belgium | European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 17-19 | Prague | Czech Republic | Wikimedia Hackathon |
| May | 24-28 | Washington, D.C. | US | ICA Conference |
| May | 27-28 | Bonn | Germany | DW Global Media Forum |
| June | 1-3 | Glasgow | UK | World News Media Conference |
| June | 11-14 | Tunis | Tunisia | RightsCon Tunis |
| June | 13-15 | Athens | Greece | GEN Summit |
| June | 13-16 | Houston | US | Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Cape Town | South Africa | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 19-21 | Toronto | Canada | International Conference on Social Media & Society |
| August | 6-10 | Accra | Ghana | PyCon Africa |
| September | 26-29 | Hamburg | Germany | Global Investigative Journalist Conference |
| October | 4 | Cambridge, MA | US | Workshop on Disinformation at Harvard |
| October | 4-5 | London | UK | Conference for Truth and Trust Online |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| UK | Vogue Business | Data Visualisation Designer |
| US | CNBC Digital | Data Visualization Journalist |
| US | Columbia University School of Journalism | Associate Research Scholar (Investigative Reporting) |
| US | CQ Roll Call | Data Visualization Reporter |
| US | Dallas Morning News | Computational Journalist |
| US | FiscalNote | Software Engineer |
| US | Freedom of the Press Foundation | Newsroom Services Coordinator |
| US | NBCUniversal Media | Investigative Associate Producer |
| US | Princeton Gerrymandering Project | Data Scientist |
| US | Simons Foundation | Data Reporter |
| US | Triangle Business Journal | Digital Editor |
| US | USA Today Network | Graphics Director |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| May | Emerging City Champions 2019 $500k fellowship |
| May | Apply for ProPublica’s 2019 Data Institute training |
